“I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE.”

Pointiest Stick blog · KDE's AI policy attempt derailed by outside backlash, maintainer says

“A bunch of people mostly outside of KDE who disapprove of LLM usage derailed KDE's attempt to add restrictions to LLM usage.”

Pointiest Stick blog · KDE's AI policy attempt derailed by outside backlash, maintainer says

“Capable people with decades of experience can successfully automate away a lot of tedious work, and still end up with a final product identical to what they would have done by hand.”

Pointiest Stick blog · KDE's AI policy attempt derailed by outside backlash, maintainer says

“It's like 100 billion toaster-sized nuclear reactors dropped from the sky one day. The very least you can say is that this would be very de-stabilizing!”

Pointiest Stick blog · KDE's AI policy attempt derailed by outside backlash, maintainer says

“If I or someone else tries again to propose a set of usage guidelines that restrict inexpert usage of LLMs, with the goal that KDE receives fewer of the AI slop merge requests that are burning people out, please don't make things worse.”

Pointiest Stick blog · KDE's AI policy attempt derailed by outside backlash, maintainer says